Wire-fence stay.



v R. L. .HORSLEY.

WIRE FENCE STAY.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.19, 1907.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908 Wit" use;

ROBERT L. HORSLEY, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

WIRE-FENCE STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed January 19, 1907. Serial No. 353,058.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT L. HonsLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Worth, Texas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Wire-Fence Stays, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to wire ties for making wire fabric and fencesand the like, and the object is to provide wire formed into spiral formso that woven wire fabric and fences can be made or put together without5 machinery or special tools and to provide wire which will be easilyformed into clamps or ties which will securely bind the cross wires offabrics and the line wires of fences and the parts of which will meshwith each other when a wire is bent up on itself and thus form a tie.

Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the followingdescription and the invention will be more particularly pointed out inthe claim.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which form a part of thisapplication and specification.

Fi ure 1 is a section of a fabric or fence in whici is shown a variationin the line wires and in which the spiral wire has its ends lapped uponeach other and meshed to form the tie or clamp. Fig. 2 is a view,illustrating a tie wire or spiral having clamps formed at the ends toengage the outside wires of the fence or fabric. Fig. 3 is a similarview, illustrating the tie wire engaging at one end the outside wire ofthe fence or fabric and the other end making two bends or clamps on theoutside wire and lapped back to the second wire of the fence or fabricand a clamp formed on this second wire.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same partsthroughout the several views.

The drawings show a section of a fabric, Fig. 1, and other sections,Figs. 2 and 3, which may be fabric or fence sections. A fabric willordinarily be constructed as illustrated in Fig. 1.

It is apparent that the improved spiral may be used on various articlesof manufacture.

By reason of the wire 10 being spiral, it has elasticity to some extent,and when the wires are sprung, as by an animal trying to force its waythrough the wires, the wire 10 will resume its normal position when thepressure is released. When there are irregularities of the ground, thefence may be s rung closer to the ground in low places so that therewill not be passages under the lowest line wire. The spiral 10 is bentseveral times about the wire 14 and then each leg of the spiral 10 isbent around each line wire 15, 16, 17, to the bottom wire 18, and thenone leg of the spiral 10 is bent several times around the wire 18 andthen the ends 11 and 12 are meshed together and no further tying orclamping is necessary and the stay 10 is secured against lateral motionon the line wires.

In Fig. 2, the spiral 13 has one end clamped or wrapped around thewire-19 and the spiral is bent around each line wire 20, 21, and 23 tothe bottom wire 24.. The end of the spiral is then clamped on the wire24.

Fig. 3 illustrates another manner of securing a spiral 22 to the linewires 25. The spiral 22 is clamped on the bottom wire 25 and then bentaround each line wire to the top wire 25. The spiral 22 is then bentseveral times about the wire 25 and extended down and clamped on thenext wire 25 below.

In all the forms shown the tie or stay wire engages the line wires byreceiving a line wire in a coil or bend thereof and the line wire andthe stay combine, meshing with each other to form a tie or clamp whichmakes the wires immovable on each other.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is,

In a wire fence, the combination of the line wires of the fence andspiraled stays, each stay being bent one or more times about each linewire and the spiral of the stay being proportioned to clamp the linewire in the spiral bend of the stay.

In testimony whereof, I set my hand in the presence of two witnesses,this 16th day of January, 1907.

ROBERT L. HORSLEY. Witnesses:

A. L. JACKSON, B. J. Lonxowsxr.

